Dear Fellow Bloggers,
When someone asks you to remove a comment that they made on your weblog, what do you do?
- Do you remove it?
- Do you require that they prove that they posted the comment? How?
- Do you make a notation on the page indicating that you’ve removed a comment?
I was planning to wait and bring this up at BloggerCon, but I’ve already had two requests this week, and really would like to know what the rest of the community thinks about this.
PS, Does anyone else get these kinds of requests?
The Daily Thing on October 22nd, 2004 at 8:29 am
Deleting Comments: What Would You Do?
Dane has asked an interesting question over at his Business-Opportunities blog: When someone asks you to remove a comment that they made on your weblog, what do you do? Do you remove it? Do you require that they prove that they posted the comment? How?…
pope phil X on October 22nd, 2004 at 11:30 am
another pope-ignatious something–once said, “tis better to throw a stone at random, than a word.”
think before you hit post. never post anything online you wouldn’t want your mother to read, and we need to update caveat emptor to ‘let the poster beware.’
edited posts should be marked as such. removed posts that destroy the context of other posts are the tricky ones.
Ted on October 22nd, 2004 at 4:30 pm
Once you click Post, it’s posted. If you didn’t check it before you posted, oh well. Post again and make your revised comment. Any good accountant will require an audit trail.
Curt Rosengren on October 23rd, 2004 at 1:20 pm
I tend to err on the side of goodwill. If someone regrets something they posted (not that it really happens on my Occupational Adventure blog), I don’t have any interest in keeping it online. Just creates bad juju.
In my alternative energy blog, somebody once made a post bad-mouthing a company. The CEO of the company e-mailed me saying that person was spreading lies and requesting that I delete the post. I had no way of knowing who was telling the truth, but deleted it just in case. I never heard anything more about it.
feve on February 20th, 2007 at 9:30 pm
unless the comment is offensive or in some way out of line, i never removed comments. i doubt that i remove comments with my new profile, either.
i agree with ted, once posted.. it’s posted. if ted now asked you to remove his comment, my reference to ted’s comment wouldn’t make any sense to future readers.
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